First of all I am very glad that you introduced us to the Spike Lee documentary because it was incredibly insightful and really added to the conversation we had at class, especially at the beginning when you were talking about Katrina. I can’t say I really knew much about the full effects of Hurricane Katrina and I didn’t really learn about the reality of the Iraq War until last year when I watched a Mr. Beat video on Youtube and explored the topic further. When thinking about Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War now, I can now see a deep and similar relationship between the climate state, the racial capitalocene and military empire. Hurricane Katrina literally exposed the U.S. sovereignty/government's inability to protect vulnerable populations and moral corruption. The Spike Lee documentary and the Clyde readings call out the U.S's prioritization of empire-building as they talked about how neglected people from New Orleans were. I was so so shocked to see the reactions of governor Blanco to the devastation caused by Katrina–which was probably partially a result of climate change–since she literally cared more about her political career than getting the people's help. Her actions, along with the presidents, show just how corrupt climate adaptation policies are, which favor rich white people and really ignore everyone else. Hearing the people of New Orleans being called refugees was kinda insane to me given that multiple news outlets kept using that term when they are citizens NOT going to another country.